Published 11:05 IST, September 16th 2024
Padres beat Giants 4-3 in 10 innings for sweep, overcoming first righty Splash Homer by Ramos
David Peralta hit a tiebreaking single in the 10th inning, and the San Diego Padres overcame Heliot Ramos becoming the first right-handed batter to homer into McCovey Cove with a 4-3 win over the San Francisco Giants on Sunday that finished a three-game sweep.
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— David Peralta hit a tiebreaking single in 10th inning, and San Diego Pres overcame Heliot Ramos becoming first right-handed batter to homer into McCovey Cove with a 4-3 win over San Francisco Giants on Sunday that finished a three-game sweep.
Ramos hit a 394-foot, opposite-field drive into water behind right field stands in ninth off Robert Suarez (9-3), tying score 2-2. re have been 104 Splash Homers by left-handed batters since ballpark opened in 2000.
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San Diego began day with a 2 1/2-game le for top NL wild card slot and 3 1/2 games back of NL West-leing Dodgers, who played later Sunday.
San Francisco has lost four straight.
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With score 2-2, Peralta drove in automatic runner Jake Cronenworth with an opposite-field single to left leing off against Camilo Doval (5-3). Peralta took third on Luis Arráez's double and scored on Dovan Sola's groundout for a 4-2 le.
Michael Conforto hit a sacrifice fly in bottom half against rián Morejón, who retired Patrick Bailey on a groundout for his second save.
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Giants were scoreless in 32 innings, three shy of San Francisco record set in 1976, before Dovan Walton's solo homer in sixth against Martín Pérez. Manny Macho h hit a sacrifice fly in top half.
Pinch-hitter Fernando Tatís Jr. homered against Tyler Rogers in eighth, his fourth home run in five games.
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Arráez extended his streak to 140 at-bats without a strikeout for Pres. It’s longest since Juan Pierre went 147 at-bats without a strikeout in 2004. Arráez also h two hits to extend his hit streak to 13 games.
After calling his players’ defensive effort in an 8-0 loss on Saturday “t major league quality,” Giants manr Bob Melvin h his team go through defensive drills in both infield and outfield before Sunday’s game.
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Giants h one error on Sunday when Mark Canha misplayed a grounder to first by Dovan Sola in sixth that put runners on first and second with outs. Jurickson Profar sacrificed and Macho's fly brought in first run.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Giants: INF Tyler Fitzgerald (lower back tightness) could return on Tuesday after missing series. An MRI revealed structural dam.
UP NEXT
Pres: RHP Yu Darvish (5-3, 3.52) starts Monday night in opener of a three-game series against visiting Houston, which starts rookie RHP Spencer Arrighetti (7-12, 4.72).
Giants: LHP Blake Snell (3-3, 3.52 ERA) is scheduled to start on Tuesday night at Baltimore, which goes with Albert Suárez (8-5, 3.39) in opener of a three-game series.
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11:05 IST, September 16th 2024